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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
35•johnjwang•1d ago

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hankbond•29m ago
Very cool, big fan of these bite size explainers. Has there been more cycling recently? Are the sizes of the caverns tracked anywhere?
Ellis_dev•10m ago
Makes you appreciate the physical infrastructure challenges, not just software. Bet the data logging and monitoring systems are ancient but robust.
analog31•9m ago
An interesting aside is that the process for making these salt domes is also used for mining salt. Drill a hole, pump water down, and up comes brine. The brine can be used as a chemical feedstock, e.g., for production of things like chlorine, sodium hydroxide (lye), and sodium carbonate for glass.

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
334•polyphilz•4h ago•64 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
101•matt_d•2h ago•8 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
94•nonmaskable•12h ago•36 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
188•krackers•3h ago•51 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
352•signa11•7h ago•173 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
28•afilipovski•3h ago•9 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
15•etoxin•28m ago•1 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
38•johnjwang•1d ago•3 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
108•jheitmann•4d ago•11 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
118•soheilpro•1d ago•20 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
166•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•137 comments

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050...
27•doener•38m ago•2 comments

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845
49•matt_d•4h ago•6 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
46•rochansinha•4h ago•7 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
68•herbertl•4d ago•25 comments

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009
58•qt31415926•4h ago•25 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2043•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•236 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/
515•vertigoruntime•15h ago•182 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
176•bananaflag•9h ago•49 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
68•Agentlien•9h ago•12 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
70•vinhnx•2d ago•123 comments

WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow
33•spathak•5d ago•5 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt
24•schopra909•6h ago•1 comments

Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html
160•mococa•5h ago•25 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
437•driverdan•10h ago•208 comments

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/
10•the__alchemist•3h ago•1 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
128•vertigoruntime•9h ago•42 comments

Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/destroy-after-reading
5•pigeons•2d ago•1 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer
1•asontha•11h ago

I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app

https://oldmanrahul.com/2026/09/14/hush/
10•oldmanrahul•10h ago•0 comments